Traditionally, printers have not regarded physical print distribution as a profit center. However, this trend is changing, as shown in the RIT Printing Industry Center’s research monograph Media Distribution in the ...

The ways in which the government has managed the environmental impacts of small printers have evolved over time. Prior to the 1980s, environmental agencies were lenient in their regulation of smaller firms. But as larger, ...

The purpose of this month’s research monograph, a literature review entitled Upstream Database and Digital Asset Management in Variable Data Printing (PICRM-2008-01), by Franziska Frey, Ph.D., RIT School of Print Media ...

The purpose of this month’s research monograph, A Survey of Digital and Offset Print Quality Issues (PICRM-2006-04), by Robert Chung, RIT School of Print Media professor, and graduate student Matthew Rees, is to compare ...

When the data from a recent Printing Industry Center study on fulfillment trends in the printing industry indicated that e-commerce, not fulfillment, was perceived to be the primary value-added service currently being ...

As printers come to grips with the market effects of overcapacity, consolidation, shorter runs, and squeezed margins, many are surprised to discover that a technology revolution has been quietly building strength in the ...

Today’s media buyers are faced with a vast number of options for delivering the advertising message, including print, broadcast media, e-mail, PDAs, electronic billboards, blimps, cell phones and even gas station pumps. ...

This month we take a look at the “lean” mindset in the printing industry. Research conducted through RIT’s Printing Industry Center has established that while both large and small printing establishments view the lean ...